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January 2023, 34-year-old Hugo Flint Cahan was strangled by fellow patient Rolando Torres-Pena, aged 22, on Topaz Ward at Newham Mental Health Centre in east London. An inquest reported in September 2026 revealed serious failings in patient supervision, including staff sleeping while on duty. Such cases have always happened. This is not a podcast about that event.

This is a similar case  from 1967 that you are unlikely to have heard of and is quite unbelievably in places. 

The details come from two different police files researched at Kew and newspaper searches. This podcast is not a professional podcast, I have written it and posted it on a Sunday morning and afternoon. 

When the podcasting boom first started after Serial around 2015, I was abroad but felt it was like Punk, anyone could do it. I was abroad at that time and was unable to join the party until 2018. I never wanted to become a business, I did subscribe to buy a coffee for a while but then requested that people who sent donations gave to animal charities instead.

Today most of my time is taken up on other projects including rewilding a small farm. Although my podcast are not exclusivly true crime, I have had the feeling that True Crime is reaching saturation point and others have the time and ability to do it better than myself. I intend to continue for another couple of years and after that will post the occasional podcast if I can find stories I find interesting.